A city built by international migration eats internationally. Italian on Pratumnak, Indian on Second Road, German on the dark side, Korean in Naklua, Mediterranean in Na Jomtien — Pattaya's international dining scene is not a concession to tourists. It is the food the city's residents eat.
Pattaya's international dining scene is the direct product of the city's expat population — one of the largest in Southeast Asia, spanning European retirees, Korean and Japanese business communities, Indian professionals, Russian tourists who became residents, and a transient but substantial Scandinavian and German community that has been arriving since the 1980s. These communities did not adapt to Thai food exclusively. They opened restaurants serving the food they knew.
The result is a city where you can eat a genuine Neapolitan pizza (wood-fired, San Marzano tomatoes, 00 flour imported from Naples), a properly spiced Punjabi curry, an authentic German schnitzel with Bavarian mustard, or a Korean BBQ with banchan that would pass in Seoul — all within a 5km radius of Pattaya Beach Road, and at prices that reflect a provincial Thai city rather than a Western one.
"Every serious cuisine in the world has a representative somewhere in Pattaya. Not all of them are good. The ones that are, are very good indeed."
The cuisines below represent the strongest international dining traditions in Pattaya — judged by depth of restaurant choice, quality consistency, and the degree to which the food actually resembles its country of origin.
Every restaurant below has been selected for authenticity — the degree to which it actually tastes like its country of origin rather than a tourist approximation of it.
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